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• Amnesty International 294
• Article 19 49
• Asylum Aid 23
• Committee to Protect Journalists 94
• EurasiaNet 38
• Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 172
• Human Rights Watch 160
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting 78
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 7
• International Federation for Human Rights 148
• IRIN 12
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• Reporters Without Borders 382
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 18
• UN News Service 104
• United States Congressional Research Service 1
• World Organisation Against Torture 20

• Abduction 59
• Access to procedures 3
• Access to water 8
• Adoption 1
• Ahmadis 4
• Ahwazi 12
• Airports 6
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 2
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 2
• Anti-terrorism law 14
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arabs 28
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 243
• Armed attacks on camps 27
• Armed forces / Military 140
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• Armenian 1
• Assamese 1
• Assyrians 1
• Asylum-migration nexus 3
• Asylum-seekers 46
• Azeri 15
• Baha'i 39
• Bail 9
• Baluchis 10
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 42
• Border controls 4
• Border crossers 7
• Buddhist 17
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
• Catholic 1
• Ceasefire 71
• Chechen 12
• Child labour 2
• Child soldiers 16
• Children's rights 29
• Children-at-risk 35
• Chinese 1
• Christian 67
• Civil and political rights 14
• Civil war 19
• Combatants / Former combatants 6
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 45
• Conflict resolution 11
• Conflict situation 10
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
• Corruption 33
• Country of origin information (COI) 1
• Coup d'état 8
• Crimean Tatars 3
• Crimes against humanity 8
• Criminal justice 174
• Death in custody 34
• Death penalty 419
• Demobilization / Disarmament 2
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 33
• Disappeared persons 20
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 24
• Domestic violence 5
• Drug trafficking 26
• Druze 2
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 9
• Election law 3
• Elections 243
• Embargo 2
• Emigrants 1
• Entry / Exit 2
• Ethiopians 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Exiles 39
• Expulsion 7
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 28
• Extreme poverty 2
• False documents 1
• Family law 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 12
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 3
• Forced marriage 9
• Forced relocation 3
• Foreign occupation 10
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 110
• Freedom of assembly and association 171
• Freedom of conscience 35
• Freedom of expression 881
• Freedom of information 591
• Freedom of movement 15
• Freedom of religion 80
• Freedom of speech 483
• Fulani 5
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 18
• Gender-based persecution 4
• Generalized violence 2
• Genocide 3
• Good governance 22
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 2
• HIV and AIDS 10
• Harmful traditional practices 10
• Hindu 8
• Honour killings 12
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 6
• Human Rights Council 10
• Human rights activists 249
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 85
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 41
• Humanitarian assistance 22
• IDP camps 4
• Illegal entry 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigrants 2
• Immigration Detention 9
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 19
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indigenous persons 2
• Integration 2
• Internal armed conflict 95
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 25
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International armed conflict 5
• International courts and tribunals 9
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• International protection 1
• Involuntary repatriation 2
• Iranians 24
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Jew 10
• Juvenile justice system 52
• Kachin 4
• Kosovar 1
• Kurd 124
• Labour law 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 8
• Legal representation / Legal aid 6
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 55
• Livelihoods 3
• Location of camps 1
• Malays 1
• Maronite 2
• Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
• Migrant rights 7
• Migrants 35
• Military courts 2
• Military operations 99
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 43
• Minority rights 15
• Multiple nationality 2
• Muslim 108
• National security / Public order 14
• Nuer 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 2
• Opposition 218
• Palestinian 39
• Passports 1
• Peace agreements 36
• Peace process 26
• Peacekeeping 30
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 28
• Persecution based on political opinion 112
• Persecution of family members 14
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 36
• Persons with disabilities 3
• Piracy 1
• Police 52
• Political groups 24
• Political parties 69
• Political situation 236
• Polygamy 7
• Population transfers 2
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prison or detention conditions 100
• Prisoners of war 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 3
• Protection of camps 2
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 31
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 116
• Public health 22
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 5
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Reception 3
• Reconciliation 3
• Referendum 16
• Refoulement 3
• Refugee camps 36
• Refugee seamen 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugees 129
• Registration 2
• Reintegration 3
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 32
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 57
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 6
• Return conditions 4
• Returnees 8
• Right to education 14
• Right to employment 8
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 12
• Right to justice 10
• Right to life 1
• Right to seek asylum 2
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 11
• Roma 6
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 37
• SGBV 40
• Sabean Mandean 1
• Safe country of origin 7
• Salafi 7
• Sanctions 61
• Secondary movement 3
• Security forces 100
• Security situation 237
• Sexual and reproductive rights 7
• Sharia law 5
• Shia 65
• Small arms 3
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 2
• Somalis 2
• State of emergency 17
• State protection 1
• Sufi 13
• Sunni 52
• Tajik 1
• Talysh 1
• Tamil 6
• Tatars 3
• Terrorism 198
• Threats / Intimidation 2
• Tibetan 9
• Tiv 2
• Torture 27
• Trafficking in persons 11
• Transit 2
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
• Tuareg 6
• Turkmen 2
• Uighur 29
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 4
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2
• Uzbek 1
• Visas 9
• Voluntary repatriation 6
• War crimes 17
• Witchcraft 2
• Withdrawal of nationality 2
• Women's rights 121
• Women-at-risk 32
• Yazīdī 8
• Zoroastrian 3

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• American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Iran Tracker
• American Kurdish Information Network
• Amnesty International - Iran
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Islamic Republic of Iran
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Iran
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Iran
• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Iran
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Iran
• Iran Human Rights Voice
• Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Islamic Republic of Iran
• Kurdish Media
• Kurdish Women's Action Against Honour Killing
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Persian2English
• RAHANA - Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Iran
• ReliefWeb - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• The Green Voice of Freedom
• The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
• UNHCR - Islamic Republic of Iran
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Iran, Islamic Republic of
• United States Department of State - Iran
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Iran
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Iran (Islamic Republic of)